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Run This Town: Directed by Ricky Tollman. With Ben Platt, Mena Massoud, Damian Lewis, Nina Dobrev. An emerging political scandal in Toronto in 2013 seen through the eyes of young staffers at city hall and a local newspaper.
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- Ricky Tollman
- 2020-03-06
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Run This Town is a 2019 drama film about Rob Ford's personal and work-related controversies during his final year as Toronto's mayor, written and directed by Ricky Tollman. It stars Ben Platt, Mena Massoud, Nina Dobrev, Scott Speedman, Gil Bellows, Jennifer Ehle, and Damian Lewis.
Run This Town in US theaters March 6, 2020 starring Damian Lewis, Ben Platt, Mena Massoud, Nina Dobrev. A young journalist and a young political aide become entangled in a larger-than-life political scandal as they struggle to navigate adult li.
- Ricky Tollman
- Gil Bellows
- Former City Councillor Joe Mihevc
- Toronto Star Investigative Reporter Kevin Donovan
- Allison Smith, Publisher of Politics Today
- Ricky Tollman, Writer and Director of Run This Town
As a longtime city councillor, Joe Mihevc says the film focuses on Ford's salacious side but misses what attracted voters. While Mihevc was no fan of Ford's politics, he says the mayor wasn't mean-spirited to his staff, as portrayed in the movie. Mihevc says the Rob he knew was quite shy. "He would have been the guy who when he got into a room woul...
In the real world, it was Toronto Star reporters Kevin Donovan and Robyn Doolittle who first viewed the video of Ford smoking crack. But you won't find them in the new film. Instead Ben Platt plays the character Bram, who gets a tip when he answers a random phone call. "The first time I watched it I felt angry that they had taken that licence and e...
Allison Smith was reporting on provincial politics in 2013 and 2014 and she remembers watching the pack of reporters chasing Rob Ford. She says the film gets some of the little details right, such as how reporters would reverse-engineer the mayor's social media to construct a daily schedule of events. One of her problems with Run This Townis how it...
Tollman says it would have been irresponsible to write the film using journalists' real names. He says there are a lot of reporters with integrity who worked on the Rob Ford story, but that is not his movie. Tollman says part of his inspiration was seeing the frustration of his brother, who studied journalism and spent his time updating a news craw...
Run This Town is a film directed by Ricky Tollman with Ben Platt, Mena Massoud, Nina Dobrev, Scott Speedman .... Year: 2019. Original title: Run This Town. Synopsis: After graduation, Bram gets his dream job at a local newspaper.
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Mar 6, 2020 · Though the film centers on the true story of the spectacular downfall of Toronto mayor Rob Ford, it’s really about recently-graduated young people who find themselves in the midst of this larger-than-life scandal.
